Home
Application and Data
Languages & Frameworks
Cross-Platform Desktop Development

Nativefier vs pygame

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Nativefier
29
95
+ 1
2
pygame
117
173
+ 1
5
Add tool

Nativefier vs pygame: What are the differences?

Developers describe Nativefier as "Wrap any web page natively without even thinking, across Windows, OSX and Linux". Nativefier is a command line tool that allows you to easily create a desktop application for any web site with succinct and minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by Electron in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc.) for use on Windows, OSX and Linux. On the other hand, pygame is detailed as "Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications". It is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language.

Nativefier can be classified as a tool in the "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category, while pygame is grouped under "Game Development".

Nativefier is an open source tool with 20.5K GitHub stars and 1.19K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Nativefier's open source repository on GitHub.

Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities
Learn More
Pros of Nativefier
Pros of pygame
  • 2
    Has a better Javascript support, and is much faster
  • 3
    Easy to install
  • 1
    Simple
  • 1
    Lightweigt by only being 12 mb

Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

Cons of Nativefier
Cons of pygame
    Be the first to leave a con
    • 2
      Has only 2d
    • 1
      Slow

    Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

    What is Nativefier?

    Nativefier is a command line tool that allows you to easily create a desktop application for any web site with succinct and minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by Electron in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc.) for use on Windows, OSX and Linux.

    What is pygame?

    It is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language.

    Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

    What companies use Nativefier?
    What companies use pygame?
    Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities
    Learn More

    Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

    What tools integrate with Nativefier?
    What tools integrate with pygame?
      No integrations found

      Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

      What are some alternatives to Nativefier and pygame?
      Electron
      With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker. The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on io.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.
      JavaScript
      JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
      Python
      Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
      Node.js
      Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
      HTML5
      HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
      See all alternatives

      Related Comparisons

      Electron vs NativefierNativefier vs React DesktopNativefier vs PhotonElectron vs Nativefier vs React Native DesktopMacGap vs Nativefier

      Trending Comparisons

      Django vs Laravel vs Node.jsBootstrap vs Foundation vs Material-UINode.js vs Spring BootFlyway vs LiquibaseAWS CodeCommit vs Bitbucket vs GitHub

      Top Comparisons

      Bitbucket vs GitHub vs GitLabPostman vs Swagger UIHipChat vs Mattermost vs SlackBootstrap vs Materialize